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heretical, a.|hɪˈrɛtɪkəl| [ad. med.L. hæreticāl-is, f. hæretic-us heretic: see -al1.] Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics; of the nature of heresy.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 346/2 Al that in the while both bought and solde of those hereticall bokes. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 26 Diuerse heriticall erroniouse and dangerouse opinions and doctrines. 1566in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 104 Masse bookes..appertayninge to the hereticall service. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandectes 40 They [the Turks] and the Persians, the one seeming hæreticall to the other, are in continuall warre. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 318 To prove that Christians are not to tolerate..Hæretical Kings. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. iv. (1852) 71 To bring heterodox, and it may be heretical persons into their communion. 1861Stanley East. Ch. vii. (1869) 246 No one likes to be called ‘heretical’, but neither is it a term of unmixed eulogy to be called ‘orthodox’. Hence heˈretically adv., in a heretical manner. heˈreticalness, heretical quality or character.
1661Baxter Mor. Prognost. ii. xxx. 54 If any Minister Preach or Pray..Heretically, to the Danger of the Peoples Souls. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. App. ii. 291 Multitudes who, because of their supposed Hereticalness, lay dead, useless and unactive. 1701Strype Aylmer (R.), He ignorantly and heretically held against the bishop, that the soul of man was of the substance of God. |